Fred Purkey is a partner practising in tax. Fred advises clients, both individual and corporate, on the income tax aspects of corporate reorganizations, personal and business trusts (in particular real estate investment trusts), owner-managed businesses, Goods and Services Tax, public and private mergers and acquisitions, employee compensation arrangements, and estate planning.

Fred has been published in Tax Topics, Quebec Tax Reporter, Preparing Your Income Tax Returns, and Preparing Your Corporate Returns (all published by CCH). Fred has also been published in Corporate Structures and Groups, Resource Sector Taxation (both published by Federated Press), and Stratège, a journal of the Association de Planification Fiscale et Financière (APFF). He has written on personal and business trusts in the 2004 Conference Report of the Canadian Tax Foundation.

Fred has spoken at tax conferences organized by the Canadian Tax Foundation (2004 National Conference), the APFF, Federated Press, and by the Strategy Institute. He has also been a Lecturer on "Taxation" at the McGill University Law School, and Lecturer on "Taxation of Real Estate" in the McGill University Graduate Diploma in Taxation program.

Fred received a B.A. in International Relations from Acadia University in 1988, and an M.A. in Political Science from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea in 1990. He graduated from McGill University in 1996 with both an LL.B. and B.C.L., has completed the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants In-Depth Tax Course levels I, II and III, and speaks both French and English. Fred became a partner in 2003.

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